When u guys see this article, u may feel my pain!

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When u guys see this article, u may feel my pain!
I installed RH9.2 (include GNOME) couple of days ago. I prefer an English looking environment with the ability to view and input Chinese, so include Chinese language package during installing. Then I heard that there was one thing in this world called SCIM, much better than the installed Chinese input method. So I unstall the previous method, download SCIM and Pinyin IMEngine source from www.scim-im.org and install it.

Then the nightmare begins. The SCIM does not start automatically.(that's ok, I strat it myself successfully). But even I can see the 'scim-launcher' process in the system-provided tool of viewing status of process, I just can not call out the input method in any application(gedit, abiword, mozilla...). There is also no SCIM pannel in the system tray.

I tried the solutions out there such like adding or modifying the following lines:
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
LANGUAGE=zh_CN
to /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xinput, of course, in vain.

My SCIM package is scim-1.4.4.tar.gz (I also tried scim-1.2.2.tar.gz).
Pinyin package is scim-pinyin-0.5.91.tar.gz.
Scim-table package is scim-tables-0.5.6.tar.gz.

BTW, when I run ./configure in the install procedure of Pinyin and Scim-table, the terminal prompts:
"checking for SCIM... Package scim was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `scim.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'scim' found
configure: error: Package requirements (scim >= 1.4.0) were not met.
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix."

I managed to find 'scim.pc' in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and run:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. The install can finish. Is there anything to do with this fault?
Or haven't I done something important? Alternatively, have I done something deadly wrong? Is this about compatibility?

Help me!

charliechan

why not rpm then?
And you should know that your distro is RH 9
scim 1.4 is quite new for your distro,many of the system softwares may not work perfectly with it.

graydream

选择RH92是你的噩梦之源，呵呵。

换个新版本，或者用apt for rh来安装软件

ascii

The rpms that www.scim-im.org provide only support fc(I failed to find the rpms of lower version, can you give me one?). I've tried that for fc, but apparently it reqires some more libs. Anyway, if it is about compatiblity, your suuggestion is to install a lower version of scim and scim-chinese? Or I have other options such as configuring environment?

Thx for at least I receive response

Post by charliechan
why not rpm then?
And you should know that your distro is RH 9
scim 1.4 is quite new for your distro,many of the system softwares may not work perfectly with it.

charliechan

Yea you better install an older version of scim/scim-chinese

Mephisto

英语挺强的么.